The first complete collection of A.A. Milne's short stories, including several never published before. A.A. Milne's real passion lay beyond Winnie-the-Pooh, as this new prose collection reveals. Collected in full for the first time, including a number previously unpublished, here are his complete short stories and sketches for grownups. They are an epiphany. These 50 stories show Milne to have been a brilliant comic sketch and short form writer. They paint memorable scenes, from a children's birthday party, an accidental encounter with murder, and a case of blackmail - often with an unexpected twist. But they also deal in poignancy, from the girl who pulls the wool over her boyfriend's eyes, to a first dance and first disappointment, or a family reunion and domestic dissonance. Milne's thought-provoking stories here will make you see his works for children in a whole new light. AUTHOR: A.A. Milne (Alan Alexander) is best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, but was also an accomplished writer of fiction for grown-ups. Prior to the First World War he worked as a young man as Assistant Editor of Punch magazine. After leaving the army, he began to write plays, short stories and novels; and then later his works for children, including the poetry collection When We Were Very Young and the storybook Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926. Milne continued to be a prolific writer until his death in 1956.
